This is going to make me seem deeply uncool but what did the violence add to Robocop? Most of it seemed cruel and unusual to my sensitive brain. The bit with Murphy getting shot to bits was just...nope!

I have no problems with the violence in The Terminator for example but in Robocop it just seems sadistic. I think it seems especially bad because Peter Weller did such a great job as Murphy. I really like the Murphy character so to see him go through that was fucking rough. I suppose that's the whole point.

What the fuck was that. Seems there were actually people out there who watched Total Recall and thought "yes, that was a good movie and we should definitely try to do the same thing to a bunch of other classics."

Also, well done on the trailer editor for giving away a load of the story.

This looks worse than the Total Recall remake. That was just so bad it made me angry... Leave these classic movies alone FFS. Next we'll have the Running Man remade into a PG-13 and the stalkers will be robots.

Thing I like about it is that cyborg robots can now run and jump and all that cool stuff. I realise this was in part due to the costume Peter Weller had to wear, as it was very restrictive, and CGI/motion capture has advanced massively. Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell quite a bit. Only thing I don't like is his lack of amnesia. He seems to be fully understanding of who he is and what he is after his 'procedure'. The best bits of the original was this erie feeling of "this could happen to me", waking up after an accident and never fully understanding what's happening. His journey was to find himself as well as capture the bad guy. Unless they have some plot device (reseting his brain/cpu) then that's a shame.

TheDarkKnight wrote:
Looks better than I expected, but clearly it's toned down violence by a fair few notches. Not surprising I suppose, the original gave me nightmares! Even so, that was a big part of what made it great.

You don't really even need to watch this film, you can tell the 'story' from the trailer. Where's Murphy? Saving her for a sequel?

Micheal Keaton has aged well. I'd love him to have come back to play Batman you know.

Keaton in a return of the dark knight film would be awesome. Instead we have daredevil Affleck to look forward to

The original robocop is an amazing film. I watched it again fairly recently and expected it to have aged badly and now only so good in my memory but no it's still brilliant.

I disagree with those saying it can't be good without the violence. That's like saying a game can't be good if it doesn't have great graphics. It's the story and characters that make a movie good or bad. Some of the wittiest movies with the best stories and characters have been "kids" movies: Rango, wall-e, and up are amazing films in their own right. Often violence and cgi are crutches for poor movies to lean on.

Edit.

What I have seen so far is worrying. But, let's wait and see, you never know!

"[–]porracaralho 460 points 9 hours ago* (548|88)
It is ironic that the movie is about Free Will. A year ago Fernando Meirelles (City of God director) described this phone conversation with José Padilha (Elite Squad), the Robocop director:
(google translator)
"I talked to José Padilha by phone a week ago. He will begin filming Robocop. He is saying that it is the worst experience of his life. Every 10 ideas he has, 9 are cut. Anything he wants, he has to fight. 'This is hell here,' he said to me. 'The film will be good, but I never suffered so much and do not want to do it again.' He is bitter, but he's a fighter."
edit: damn google translation"

What annoys me about these remakes is that they know what they are doing. It's not like they just fucked up, they are purposefully watering them down, smoothing the rough edges, and taking all the bite out of them, in an attempt to squeeze money out of us saps.